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Photo credit: Wikipedia The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported sources as saying Thursday the 2021 season could ...

01/15/2021 Mike Shannon’s 50th season calling radio broadcasts for the St. Louis Cardinals will apparently be his last. St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Dan Caesar reports that Shannon, 81, will close out his broadcasting career with the 2021 season. Beginning in 1972, the longtime announcer began calling games on KMOX with legendary play-by-play man Jack Buck following a nine-year playing career with the Cardinals. In those nine seasons, Shannon mostly played third base and right field, compiling a .255 average and .698 OPS with 116 doubles, 68 home runs, and 367 RBI. He played on two World Ser...

KTVI Fox 2-St. Louis has added details to a Thursday report from the St. Louis Post Dispatch that long-time St...

Courtesy MTM This week 41 years ago: Beloved Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson was fired from his sports talk show on WKRP In Cincinnati. "I must be nuts. Every time I come into this town, I get fired," said Anderson at the conclusion of WKRP's "Sparky" episode.  It was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1979 during WKRP's second season. Credit Courtesy MTM The Reds Hall of Fame manager, who led the Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Championships, was hired to do a two-hour sports program by station manager Arthur Carlson (Dayton native Gordon Jump). Carlson envisioned WKRP nat...

The country in st. louis, missouri, you know, anytime they check in with washington it's like, oh, god, here we go, and it's going to be more of the same. >> well, does that put you in a difficult position in terms of the cardinals since you are from missouri? >> yeah, but they're not here -- [laughter] i've moved on. i didn't do the nlcs. i somehow people, i'm sure, in washington found a way to blame me if the cardinals ever got a hit, but they got about two -- >> okay. so that was a non-issue. >> it was a non-issue. but i've done world series where the cardinals are in, i've done playoff ser...